Glossary of Abbreviations

• TMBC - Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
  
  
• UDP - Unitary Development Plan
  
  
• PPG - Planning Policy Guidance Note
  
  
• PPG1 - General Policy and Principles
  
  
• PPG2 - Green Belts
  
  
• PPG3 - Housing
  
  
• PPG4 - Industrial and Commercial Development and Small Firms
  
  
• PPG6 - Town Centres and Retail Developments
  
  
• PPG7 - The Countryside - Environmental Quality and Economic and Social Development
  
  
• PPG8 - Telecommunications
  
  
• PPG9 - Nature Conservation
  
  
• PPG10 - Planning and Waste Management
  
  
• PPG12 - Development Plans
  
  
• PPG13 - Transport
  
  
• PPG14 - Development on Unstable Land
  
  
• PPG15 - Planning and the Historic Environment
  
  
• PPG16 - Archaeology and Planning
  
  
• PPG17 - Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation
  
  
• PPG18 - Enforcing Planning Control
  
  
• PPG21 - Tourism
  
  
• PPG22 - Renewable Energy
  
  
• PPG23 - Planning and Pollution Control
  
  
• PPG24 - Planning and Noise
  
  
• PPG25 - Development and Flood Risk
  
  
• RPG - Regional Planning Guidance
  
  
• RPG13 - Regional Planning Guidance for the North West
  
  
• RPG8 - Regional Planning Guidance for the East Midlands
  
  
• SPG - Supplementary Planning Guidance
  
  
• NWDA - North West Development Agency
  
  
• GMPTE - Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive
  
  
• GMPTA - Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority
  
  
• PTA - Passenger Transport Authority
  
  
• LTP - Local transport plan
  
  
• GMLTP - Greater Manchester Local Transport Plan
  
  
• SSSI - Site of Special Scientific Interest
  
  
• SBI - Site of Biological Importance
  
  
• SRB - Single Regeneration Budget
  
  
• HA - Highways Agency
  
  
• EA - Environment Agency
  
  
• GONW - Government Office for the North West
  
  
• EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment
  
  
• DETR - Department of Environment Transport and the Regions